Remove Silences in Final Cut Pro | 10x your Workflow with TimeBolt

[@Brad_West]

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[@travisreed5965]

Brilliant - This Is Absolutely Unbelievable - The Whole Sync Feature Is Worthy Of A Purchase - TimeBolt Would Be A Game Changer For These New Realtor Videos That I Am Involved With - And In Your Case, Shaving 10 To 15 Minutes Off Of Your 30 Minute Clips Boggles My Mind - Also, You Nailed These Features And TimeBolt Should Be Proud To Have You On Board Well Done Brother , Cheers

[@Brad_West]

Thanks so much Travis! Timebolt saves me so much time every week now. Super stoked to share how Timebolt works on the channel 😄 Awesome to hear that you're getting involved in realtor videos. Feel free to share some links if you like 😄👊🏼

[@JoeCastellon]

Thank you for this opportunity. I can see how TimeBolt will help virtually 99% of us creators. 👌🏻

[@Brad_West]

Yeah it's such a huge timesaver for me! Good luck with the giveaway.

[@digitallocalleads8254]

Nobody is explaining the multi-cam feature in Timebolt. Ive had access to Timebolt since the Beta version. Thank you for walking us through the Multi-Cam. Perfect

[@Brad_West]

You’re welcome! It’s one of the reasons Timebolt is so powerful for me personally. I use it on every KZbin video I make. 😄👊🏼

[@rivvidproductions]

I primarily film/edit talking heads for my wife's KZbin channel and I can already tell that this would save me HOURS of work! Even if I don't win the giveaway, it's still worth the price. Thanks for showing us Timebolt in action, Brad!

[@Brad_West]

Yeah 100%! It will help you so much with editing talking head stuff. Best of luck for the giveaway!

[@moxeman]

Your steps worked perfect for a video for Teams I just shot. I have video with green screen on ZV-E10 and audio recorded in OBS. There is a significant difference between capture in OBS and native on a camera memory card. And I'm glad there is a workable solution in TimeBolt now so I can stress over where to store huge video files now lol

[@Brad_West]

Awesome! I'm so glad to hear that! There are so many great ways to apply this workflow to different types of videos. Podcasts is another one that would be super easy to edit using Timebolt 😄

[@travel_paradise]

Great, i think it has to be TIMEBOSS Thankyou❤

[@Brad_West]

Haha absolutely! 😂

[@austinevplab7167]

Excellent. I always get great advice from your videos. Do you have a recommended dB level for narration?

[@Brad_West]

So happy to hear that! The short answer is -3dB to -6dB for narration. The long answer is it depends. If it's for broadcast on TV, you would likely need to adhere LUFS standards, but for any KZbin videos or social media videos having your dialog peak between -3dB to -6dB is perfect.

[@austinevplab7167]

@@Brad_West Thank you for the fast reply. I’m cursed with wicked tinnitus so I can’t tell just by listening if I’ve got the volume correctly set. This will help me, you’re my go-to person for ideas and editing tips.

[@Brad_West]

@@austinevplab7167 My pleasure! Tinnitus is not fun. I have it too (not bad at all luckily) from years of drumming.

[@RafaelLudwig]

Timebolt for the win!

[@moxeman]

yes!

[@Brad_West]

100%! 😄👌🏼

[@jovanypantaleon]

How does this compare to recut. It does something similar, but it’s half the price… huge fan keep up the awesome work Brad!

[@Brad_West]

Hey Jovany! Good question. Recut does a similar thing, but it doesn’t support multicam xml export. For me, that is the main differentiator that makes Timebolt something I’ll use multiple times per week as opposed to something I would only use once per month possibly. The multicam workflow capabilities are everything 😄🙌🏼

[@jovanypantaleon]

Thanks for clearing that up

[@remnants-toy4410]

Now the editing will easier 👌🏼

[@Brad_West]

Easier and so much faster 😄

[@Willianakata]

How would the workflow look if I use plural eyes together with Time Bolt? Is it possible to sync multicam with pluraleyes and at the same time cut with Time bolt?

[@Brad_West]

Right now, there is no way that I know of to use the two together. That would be great though!

[@Taigf24]

Great playing!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Henry!

[@abal7akam]

Does it work on iPad Pro ?

[@Brad_West]

Unfortunately not.

[@harshitphotowork]

Hey Brad Sir Your Explanation Is Too Good 🔥 This Is Harshit Mishra From Hyderabad, India & here to tell you about this year, you should make a paid pre recorded paid course of fcpx from basic to advance it will be helpful for every out their & will be a great experience learning with you & it's going to help both the people. Thank you. Hare Krishna! ✨

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Harshit! I have a FCP beginners course: skl.sh/3djPAqk I am also working on a color grading course. Hopefully a more advanced course in the future too. Thanks so much for watching the videos! 😄🙏🏼

[@harshitphotowork]

@@Brad_West oh basically, I don't trust these sites to learn as it's not your own website sir, people have the trust issues regarding this, better you make your own website for the basic and advance level course of final cut pro x because making your own website for course and other stuff is good because it help you to grow in the long race.

[@Brad_West]

I plan to host my courses on my current website soon. But for now, this one is on Skillshare and it’s trustworthy 😄👍🏼

[@RaphaelBellizziFilms]

This is amazing! Already entered the giveaway!

[@Brad_West]

Best of luck with the giveaway! 😄🤞🏼

[@Kou.knows1]

Interesting bruv! Sign me up...this is great

[@Brad_West]

Yeah it's such a game changer for me! 😄🙌🏼

[@toygorilla1292]

Hey again Brad! Hope you're well. If I do the above for a multicam clip with just two angles, 1 mic, and 1 cam, and the mic is the monitoring angle, but I want the cam angle to be always the angle that is being viewed, is there an easy way to do that? Basically i want to make the cam the active video angle in each clip. I don't see a way of doing it other than manually right clicking on each clip and selecting the cam as the active video angle but will take a very long time as there are a lot of clips.

[@toygorilla1292]

All good I figured it out. Can select all clips, and then go to the Inspector and then change the active video angle for all clips.

[@Brad_West]

Yes, that is exactly what I was going to suggest. Glad you got it sorted out 😄👊🏼

[@hannaosym]

Hey Brad! Thanks for sharing! Can I change the duration of the cuts in FCPX after importing them from Time Bolt? F.e. if Time Bolt deleted a part of a video accidentally

[@Brad_West]

Absolutely! You can change any of the cuts after importing from Timebolt. That’s the great thing about the XML. It just relinked to the original footage so you can edit as if you started the edit in FCP 😄🤙🏼

[@hannaosym]

@@Brad_Westgreat! Then I'm getting it. Thanks for the info and a promocode ;)

[@Brad_West]

You’re welcome! I’m sure you’re going to enjoy using it 😄👌🏼

[@joshuafcenters]

I tried it, added both my camera angles and the syncing in final cut was good for a minute then horrible after. Im going to try again tomorrow

[@Brad_West]

Are the two camera angles recorded at different frame rates?

[@joshuafcenters]

24 and 23.98

[@Brad_West]

@@joshuafcenters that’s weird. That should sync fine but it’s possible if the clips are really long, that you’re experiencing sync drift. You will have to retime one of your clips to match the timing of the other. You can either slow one down slightly or speed it up. Best way to do it is to find a word right at the beginning and create a marker on both clips on that word. Then, do the same for the last word. Retime one of the clips until the markers line up at the beginning and the end. Hope that helps!

[@joshuafcenters]

I just got it and trying to do multi cam, my confusion is if haver 2 seperate angles with respective audio. What if the audio is off when i upload each to timebolt? its my understanding I cannot add two audio files at the same time as you can in recut? Is that correct? Then when creating multicam in final cut it feels much easier to just select the two clips and create multi cam vs this way.

[@Brad_West]

Yeah you wouldn’t add both audio files to Timebolt. You would add one, use that to cut everything up and then when you’re in FCP, you add a second angle inside the multicam clip, add the additional audio file and sync it there. Your cuts will stay intact. If you need both angles present in Timebolt because it’s two different speakers for example, then you might have to add them to FCP, sync them, export a master audio file that is both angles combined into one file, cut that file up with Timebolt and then once you’ve imported the multicam, you can add two new angles for the two separate audio files. I hope that makes sense 😄👍🏼

[@toygorilla1292]

Hi Brad, great video, very helpful. Is it possible to use generators on only one cam inside a multicam clip? I just exported a multicam clip using Timebolt consisting of Cam, Mic, & Screen Recording. I normally use a Circle generator and stencil alpha on my cam clip to create a picture in picture which I layer over my screen recording, so that the screen recording is the main thing everyone is seeing, and my face is in a circle in the corner. But I can't seem to figure out how to do this on a multicam clip. Is it possible? THANKS

[@Brad_West]

You could create a compound clip on the cam clip using the shortcut Alt G, then copy the screen recording into the compound clip, then add your circle generator inside the compound clip. Either that, or you could duplicate the multicam clip in your timeline, change the top one to the cam angle and then add the generator. The only thing with that method is that you have to cut both multicam clips every time you make a cut. Hope that helps 😄🤞🏼

[@toygorilla1292]

@@Brad_West Awesome, thanks so much, and thanks for the lightning speed reply!

[@Brad_West]

Timebolt has made me faster 😉😂

[@toygorilla1292]

@@Brad_West I'm not getting my head around the first method. Did you mean create a compound clip on the multi cam clip or the cam clip? And then how do I copy the screen recording with all the cuts made by Timebolt? As the Timebolt cuts were made on the audio track and the screen recording is only cut and synced within the multicam clip...THANKS

[@Brad_West]

For the first method, double click to open the multicam clip and on your cam layer, select the clip and hit Alt G to create the compound clip. Then copy the screen recording, double click to open the compound clip and paste the screen recording into the compound clip. You can drop it below the cam clip and then do what you normally do to the cam clip. Then you can go back to your timeline. Does that make more sense?

[@josephruocco7571]

Hello Brad! Can you upload multiple files at once? I tried another app called recut and if you add multiple files it places them on top of each other... so bad.

[@Brad_West]

Not at this stage. But that would be awesome. I'll reach out to the Timebolt team to see if that function is something that may be added in a future update.

[@ozedsal5581]

Are you guys switching to DR?

[@Brad_West]

I'm not planning to any time soon. Especially not if Apple gives us the updates we have been waiting for 😄

[@hannaosym]

Brad, I'm sorry to bother you, but I can't move my footage into the multicam clip with my audio... There's a 🚫 sign, when I'm trying to move it...And my original footage is 4k, and the resolution of the MC created by timebolt is FullHD. When I import my XML file, there's an error The item is not on an edit frame boundary

[@Brad_West]

It might be a frame rate issue. What frame rate did you export the XML at and what frame rate is your video file?

[@hannaosym]

@@Brad_West they're the same. The video is 23.98 and xml is 23.98. But I also tried different values (23.976, 24...)

[@Brad_West]

@@hannaosym That's super weird. I would reach out to the people over at Timebolt. Their customer support is great and they will definitely help you get to the bottom of it.

[@hannaosym]

@@Brad_West Thanks a lot! I'll write them

[@heyaziz]

Hey Brad, thank you for your video! I tried Timebolt in free version but it took over 3 minutes for a 5 minute clip to generate the final result. How can it generate your 1 hour file in 11 seconds to the final result? 😅

[@Brad_West]

That's weird. Mine literally takes seconds. Were you running other apps in the background? Is your computer new or old?

[@heyaziz]

@@Brad_West No other apps and I have a Mac Pro 2020. I can't explain what's wrong or if any settings should change

[@Brad_West]

@@heyaziz That's really odd. Everytime I use Timebolt, it does it's thing in a few seconds. Timebolt's support is really good. If I were you, I'd reach out to them to see what they can do for you. They should be able to help you find a solution 😄

[@heyaziz]

@@Brad_West Anyway thank you so much for your help! ☺️

[@british31]

What happened to the Lifetime option? It vanished!

[@Brad_West]

Ah they must’ve taken the lifetime option away! What a pity 😬

[@british31]

@@Brad_West Right? I was prepared to plonk down the $$, oh well.

[@Brad_West]

🙈@@british31

[@0bsoninc.607]

Pretty sure strip silence already does this in like every audio daw and definitely at least fcp 😂 have fun paying for that repackaged “ai” plugin

[@Brad_West]

A lot of audio DAWs have this but it’s not a feature in FCP.

[@ClassicCyclingCC]

It’s an interesting plugin but it is way too expensive. It seems to me that the primary application of this plugin is Talkinghead type Videos, which is not what I do. If it were priced under $100, I would have bought it but $250!!!!!! That’s outrageous. I would rather buy DaVinci Resolve for only $50 more.

[@Brad_West]

Yeah talking heads, interviews, podcasts, anything like that. It's not cheap but for someone like me who edits tons of talking head and interview footage, it's a huge time saver 😄

[@ClassicCyclingCC]

I think the pricing of this App puts it out of reach of the average Video Amateur and targets the “pros”. I agree that if FCP is your job then $250 for an App that will save time makes sense but otherwise it is not worth the price of entry. Just my opinion. Thanks for the prompt reply and keep up the good work.

[@Brad_West]

Yeah 100%! I definitely think their target audience is someone who edits and sifts through tons of footage daily 😄 Appreciate you watching as always! 🙏🏼